11 hurt in London car horror

Eleven people were injured Saturday when a driver plowed into a crowd of pedestrians in a busy London tourist area, officials said.

The motorist drove up onto a sidewalk near the Natural History Museum on Exhibition Road in South Kensington at 2:20 p.m. in what cops called “road traffic incident,” The Sun reported.

Hundreds of people ran screaming from the scene for fear that the violent act was yet another terrorist attack.

“I could see a car diagonally across the road, looking like it was going into one of the boulders on the side of the road, and I could see a crowd of people around what was clearly one or two people on the pavement,” said BBC reporter Chloe Hayward, who was leaving the museum as the mayhem unfolded.

“He was driving down the pavement and hit 11 to 12 people,” model Oliver Cheshire told the Daily Mail.

“Then the guy was screaming,” Cheshire told the paper. A group of men then pinned the driver on the ground next to a black Toyota, photos show.

“He looked at me, and I was really in shock,” Cheshire said. “I got out of my car and grabbed him — three of us grabbed him — and someone phoned the police.”

Police detained the driver, and later placed him under arrest. As he was taken into cus- tody, the man looked “really proud of himself ” and was laughing, a witness said.

One report said the motorist “blacked out” before the crash. His identity has not been released.

Nine people — along with the detained man — were transported to a hospital with head and leg injuries, none of which were considered life-threatening.

“The incident is a road traffic investigation and not a terrorist-related incident,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.